Morocco denies any contact with ‘self-proclaimed Republic of Donesk’

Morocco has denied reports that it has engaged in official or unofficial contact with the “self-proclaimed republic of Donesk”, an entity not recognized by the Kingdom nor by the United Nations.

“Morocco denies such information,” said the Moroccan embassy in Kiev in a statement, following media reports alleging there were contacts between Morocco and the “self-proclaimed republic of Donesk”.

“This entity is recognized neither by our country nor by the United Nations,” the embassy reiterated.

Therefore, “there can be no official or unofficial contact of the Moroccan state with an entity of this nature,” the statement said.

Reports about the alleged contacts came after Moroccan Brahim Saadoun was captured by Russian forces in April while fighting with the Ukrainian forces.

Brahim Saadoun, aged 21, was indicted, together with two Britons, by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic to the death penalty on mercenary charges.

When he was captured he was wearing Ukrainian fatigue because he was a marines member, a choice he made by his own free will.

Saadoun has Ukrainian nationality and this was confirmed by his father, who pleads for his son to be treated as a prisoner of war and not as a mercenary because he has Ukrainian nationality.